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Melovee White Trust

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$926k
Granted FY2021
15
Grants FY2021
3
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Health$1.0MReligion$912kEducation$490kHuman Services$415kInternational$400kPhilanthropy$315kArts & Culture$175kFood & Nutrition$160kOther$0
02FY2021 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $230k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $696k
$45,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONGO INITIATIVE USA INC$200,000
SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION$190,000
ALAMO HEIGHTS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$100,000
HFCC INC (HOUSING FIRST COMMUNITY COALITION)$56,400
REACHING MAXIMUM INDEPENDENCE INC$50,000
MAKE WATER 4 AFRICA$50,000
BLESSED SACRAMENT ACADEMY$50,000
SAN ANTONIO MENNONITE CHURCH$45,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$40,000
CHOSEN CARE INC$40,000
SIGHT FOR LIFE FOUNDATION$35,000
HARVEST REGIONAL FOOD BANK$30,000
MORGAN'S WONDERLAND INCLUSION FOUNDATION$20,000
ENOCH SAYS$10,000
SMITH POINT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT & EMERGENCY CO$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $595k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%MORGAN'S WONDERLAND INCLUSION FOUNDATION: $20k → 16%TEXAS BURN SURVIVOR SOCIETY INC: $70k → 16%TEXAS BURN SURVIVOR SOCIETY: $50k → 16%REACHING MAXIMUM INDEPENDENCE INC: $50k → 16%CHILDSAFE: $100k → 16%CHILDSAFE: $50k → 16%ANY BABY CAN OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $75k → 16%MORNINGSIDE MINITRIES: $25k → 16%MORNINGSIDE MINISTRIES: $40k → 16%REACHING MAXIMUM INDEPENDENCE INC: $75k → 16%CHOSEN CARE INC: $40k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 14 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2021, 8 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
12

Total granted

$2.7M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
+22%

Still filing today

64%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $356k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyInternationalFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • EC
    ECUMENICAL CENTER FOR RELIGION AND HEALT
    2× · 2017–2019 · $375k · revenue +30%
  • C
    CHILDSAFE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $150k · revenue +216%
  • RM
    REACHING MAXIMUM INDEPENDENCE
    2× · 2017–2021 · $125k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • RC
    REBECCA CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $135k
  • TS
    THE SPONSEL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $125k
  • S(
    SOAR (SPORTS OUTDOORS AND RECREATION)
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
San Antonio Automobile Dealers Association Foundation Inc
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2
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of San Antonio Inc

To provide a safe, caring, and temporary home away from home for the families of children receiving essential medical services in san antonio, texas.

Health
3
The Arc of San Antonio Inc

To improve the quality of life for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and those who care for them.

Health
4
Mission Able

Mobilize volunteers or skilled professionals to meet needs that primarily serve the san marcos, texas area.

Housing & Shelter
5
San Antonio Foster Care and Adoption and Services

San antonio foster care and adoption services inc. is a licensed child placement agency in the state of texas. the organization cares for children placed in foster care by the state of texas.

Human Services
6
San Antonio Council On Alcohol and Drug Awareness

To provide alcohol and drug use prevention, intervention and recovery services to children, youth and adults in the community.

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7
Meals On Wheels San Antonio

To provide services which focus on nourishing lives, enabling independence and caring for the most frail and isolated residents in the greater san antonio region.

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8
San Antonio Medical Foundation

The mission of the san antonio medical foundation is to improvehealth care, advance biomedical science, and enhance communitywell-being by providing leadership & active stewardship of our landand other assets.

Health
9
Greater Satx

The mission of greater:satx is to lead the developemnt and diversification of san antonio regional economy through the recruitment and expansion of qualify employers and job producing investments.

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10
Southwest Texas Regional Advisory Council

To reduce death/disability related to trauma, disaster and acute illness through implementation of a well-planned and coordinated regional emergency response system.

Health
11
Communities in Schools of San Antonio

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Education
12
Tennis Officials of San Antonio Association
Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio Area Foundation; the most unlike its peers is More Water 4 Africa. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
13/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHAPEL OF GOD'S COUNTRY MINITRIES INC: $432,096 · OtherCHAPEL OF GOD'S COUNTRY MINITRIES INCECUMENICAL CENTER FOR RELIGION AND HEALT: $375,000 · OtherECUMENICAL CENTER FOR RELIGION AND HEALTTHE WINSTON SCHOOL SAN ANTONIO: $325,000 · OtherTHE WINSTON SCHOOL SAN ANTONIOLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $280,000 · OtherLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETYSHEPHERD OF THE HILLS LUTHERAN CHURCH: $200,000 · OtherSHEPHERD OF THE HILLS LUTHERAN CHURCHREBECCA CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH: $135,000 · OtherTHE SPONSEL FOUNDATION: $125,000 · OtherSOAR (SPORTS OUTDOORS AND RECREATION): $100,000 · OtherALAMO HEIGHTS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $100,000 · OtherSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $100,000 · OtherSAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC: $100,000 · Other+10 more: $476,400 · Other+10 moreCHILDSAFE: $150,000 · Human ServicesCHILDSAFEREACHING MAXIMUM INDEPENDENCE: $125,000 · Human ServicesREACHING MAXIMU…TEXAS BURN SURVIVOR SOCIETY INC: $120,000 · Human ServicesTEXAS BURN SURV…ANY BABY CAN OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesANY BABY CAN OF…MORNINGSIDE MINISTRIES: $65,000 · Human ServicesMORNINGSIDE MIN…CHOSEN CARE INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesCHOSEN CARE INCMorgan's Inclusion Initiative FKA Morgan's Wonderland Inclusion Foundation: $20,000 · Human ServicesCONGO INITIATIVE USA INC: $350,000 · EducationCONGO INI…SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION: $215,000 · PhilanthropyRONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropySAN ANTONIO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $100,000 · Arts & CultureMARFA THEATRE dba Marfa Live Arts: $75,000 · Arts & CultureHarvest Texarkana Regional Food Bank Inc: $60,000 · Food & NutritionMORE WATER 4 AFRICA: $50,000 · International
Other$2,748,496Human Services$595,000Education$350,000Philanthropy$315,000Arts & Culture$175,000Food & Nutrition$60,000International$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetECUMENICAL CENTER FOR RELIGION AND HEALT: $375,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetCONGO INITIATIVE USA INC: $350,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetTHE WINSTON SCHOOL SAN ANTONIO: $325,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetSAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION: $215,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDSAFE: $150,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetREACHING MAXIMUM INDEPENDENCE: $125,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTEXAS BURN SURVIVOR SOCIETY INC: $120,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetSAN ANTONIO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetRONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMARFA THEATRE dba Marfa Live Arts: $75,000 over 2y, 38% of budgetANY BABY CAN OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $75,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMORNINGSIDE MINISTRIES: $65,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHarvest Texarkana Regional Food Bank Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSAN ANTONIO CHRISTIAN DENTAL CLINIC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetMORE WATER 4 AFRICA: $50,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetSA Life Academy: $50,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetCHOSEN CARE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMorgan's Inclusion Initiative FKA Morgan's Wonderland Inclusion Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSMITH POINT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT AND EMERGENCY CORPS: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

San Antonio Area Foun…Harvey E Najim Charit…Nancy Smith Hurd Foun…Faye L & William L Co…Marcia & Otto Koehler…The Texas Cavaliers C…John L Santikos Chari…St Luke's Lutheran He…Pryor Myra Stafford C…Nathalie & Gladys Dal…Mays Family FoundationLouis H and Mary Patr…
San Antonio Area FoundationTX35.4× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · St Luke's Lutheran Health Ministries Inc · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Nathalie & Gladys Dalkowitz Charitable Trust · Mays Family Foundation · Louis H and Mary Patricia Stumberg Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Melovee White Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Melovee White Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Melovee White Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Melovee White Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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